Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by zatkin » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 6:54 PM UTC

I haven't seen a thread posted like this before, so I thought I'd ask.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by eterm » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

I'm working on solving a problem I've been playing with for a while.

Fundamentally it involves picking a feasible solution from a solution space of (225 choose 45) possible solutions.

That number is obviously too big to brute force randomly, but I was able to get very close to a solution by hand, and so it feels like there ought to be an algorithm to generate a solution. (It doesn't feel like a problem where the solution wouldn't be polynomial time.)

It feels like some kind of branching with aggressive pruning would deliver a solution but I have much I need to learn first to actually develop it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by caio1982 » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

I'm drifting, dunno if that really counts. Trying to get rid of some bugs of WTF level that I only see in my own machine and that I can't really use to justify my paid time, so I'm getting stressed out by the minute (after a few days already) while I try to figure it out and go back to regular work.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by joshschreuder » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 11:03 PM UTC

There was a thread posted 2 hours before you posted this :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291148

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by krapp » Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 12:19 AM UTC

Building Space Invaders in C++/SDL[0] and the entity-component framework it uses. This week I'm working on GUI basics and event handling, so hopefully it starts looking like an actual game.

Also continuing the basic Game Development (Unity3D) course at Coursera[1]

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/spaceinvaders

[1]https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-development

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by Avalaxy » Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 9:58 AM UTC

caio1982 wrote: post #3

I'm drifting, dunno if that really counts. Trying to get rid of some bugs of WTF level that I only see in my own machine and that I can't really use to justify my paid time, so I'm getting stressed out by the minute (after a few days already) while I try to figure it out and go back to regular work.

Maybe work on a different machine for now? May be a lot cheaper.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by brudgers » Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 1:22 PM UTC

Finishing Part I of The RSpec Book. The hands-on tutorial is giving me a feel for why BDD's advocates advocate BDD. It also giving me a feel for the cost of another layer of tooling on top of the "running code".

Continuing: Coursera Modeling Discreet Optimization: I wish MiniZinc had better tooling and documentation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by jordsmi » Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

I've been getting some landing pages and ad copy ready for when the Instagram ads go public, which I was told is tomorrow.

Also, I am working on adding a test suite to one of my previous applications that I made. I finished up the model/controller tests, so am on to the integration tests.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by hanniabu » Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 1:45 PM UTC

I'd love to build a SAAS so now I'm trying to figure out what type I'd like to create. Also doing research on everything involved from what tools to use to lessons learned from those before.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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Post by nyddle » Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

Coursera cryptocurrency tech course, https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech